Posted on 05/15/2022 4:13:02 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: What color is the Moon? It depends on the night. Outside of the Earth's atmosphere, the dark Moon, which shines by reflected sunlight, appears a magnificently brown-tinged gray. Viewed from inside the Earth's atmosphere, though, the moon can appear quite different. The featured image highlights a collection of apparent colors of the full moon documented by one astrophotographer over 10 years from different locations across Italy. A red or yellow colored moon usually indicates a moon seen near the horizon. There, some of the blue light has been scattered away by a long path through the Earth's atmosphere, sometimes laden with fine dust. A blue-colored moon is more rare and can indicate a moon seen through an atmosphere carrying larger dust particles. What created the purple moon is unclear -- it may be a combination of several effects. The last image captures the total lunar eclipse of 2018 July -- where the moon, in Earth's shadow, appeared a faint red -- due to light refracted through air around the Earth. Today there is not only another full moon but a total lunar eclipse visible to observers in North and South America -- an occurrence that may lead to some unexpected lunar colorings.
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Awsome pic. Hey I think there is an eclipse tonight.
Times for eclipse:
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Online, in case you can’t see it in your area:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGIaEIICIcs
(That ‘3-hour’ message doesn’t change; they say they will begin to air at 9:32 EDT.)
Something I’ve never seen before, one of the coolest pictures ever.
Yes, there is an eclipse tonight. The moon has a strange orangish color right now rising in the east in Florida.
Interesting thing:
A couple months ago, my brother did a photo with his wife’s new iFag phone during a full moon. Ended up being a long exposure, and he was shocked a how colorful it was.
We, he being a geophysicist and me an EE, discussed about how the moolight was mostly white, therefore, all the colors were there, just too dim to see with the greasy eyeball.
Im in CA and its very orangeish and dark in the eastern sky. And I think I just saw a very very bright ISS flyby from south to north almost directly overhead. Pretty cool.
Nice sunsets this evening, too...
That was no moon. It was the Death Star paying a visit.
~Easy
Nice set of photos. Thanks for posting. In Florida the moon was much higher in the sky for the eclipse.
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